The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[bamadude]

I heard my first peeps and I went to check on them and I have my first pip!!! I've never made it this far in incubation before, how amazing!!

Great news. I was beginning to worry for u

 

[JDchicks]

any sizzles yet? great to hear your progress!

A couple of silkie eggs have hatched. But my viewing window makes it hard to see which ones.

One of the chicks has a vaulted head, yipeee!!!

 

[RedIII]

Welcome to BYC @Nanachicks

 

[Dustystrail]

Cracked this FRESH egg to find all these white spots. The same hens eggs didnt develop in this HAL, and she laid this last week:


In febuary i came to the coop and saw her head blown up like a balloon, which im not sure if its from being pecked in her ear as a chick or not. (She has a lump by her ear now and is deaf)




I feel like theres something wrong but im not sure what...has anyone had these white spots in yolks before?!

I don't know about the white spots but a gal from work had a hen that looked like this last year. An overly enthusiastic rooster had ruptured one of her air sacs. I don't know what she did for it but I know she has a friend who is a vet. Maybe the weird eggs are just a side affect

Pics please! This is for everyone not just @Mama Bay

Moved some more to the brooder

Wondering if my fellow BYC'ers will do me a favor in between checking for hatchlings, pipers and zippers and posting their progresses on here. That would be wishing my mother-in-law a warm welcome. She finally convinced her husband to build her a coop and she is leaving my house with chickens to start her flock. Her avitar is the coop he built for her, it's pretty awesome. Her username is [COLOR=0000FF]Nanachicks. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=000000]Thank you'all in advance![/COLOR]
[COLOR=000000]Jesse[/COLOR]

Nanachicks

 

[Peep-Chicken]

@Nanachicks Lovley coop!

 

[StacyAK]

Had my first pip last night and there are 5 hatched this morning and 6 more pipping

 

[chickiebaby1]

No just 3. It's so weird he told me they were from the Ghost barred leghorn roo and red layer he had so I expected them all to be yellow/white but 2 more dark one just hatched but without black legs.

These sound sort of like sex links. I think you mentioned something earlier about one with a white dot on it's head. That would be a rooster when you cross a RIR roo with a barred rock. I just hatched a few of those myself and sometimes they will have black legs and beaks and sometimes they will have black and yellow legs and beaks. Or at least that is what I have been getting with my sex link chicks. They turn out really pretty and should lay really great.

 

[LadyCluck77]

I am assisting a wrong end piper, I barely know what to do...chipped away more shell from the egg but I couldn't find the beak. I think it change positions again. Every hour I should wet the membrane with warm water and a q tip right?
Ugh, this was my only Lavender Ameraucana that was showing signs of life

 

[Cynthia12]

And....

Still waiting. Nothing yet, not even a peep.

What? Catching up. I've been real sick..glad my hatch is over...you best have a pip by the time I get through these posts! Come on chickies!

 

[ChickenFox]

I need some help. I came home to find one of my banty eggs has hatched and I have a unique healthy looking chick except she can't walk. Her feet are up by her head and even when I gently try to straighten them they just pop right back up. What can I do?